Nantucket whalers and the Franklin-Folger chart of the Gulf Stream
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2018-04Metadata
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Franklin-Folger chart; Gulf StreamDescription
Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2018. This article is posted here by permission of Nantucket Historical Association for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Historic Nantucket 68, no. 1 (2018): 17-24. Also includes: The search for the “lost” Franklin-Folger chart
by Philip L. Richardson
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